Re: docs/173598: torrents.freebsd.org seems to be down

On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 08:33:27PM +0000, gjb@FreeBSD.org wrote:
> Synopsis: torrents.freebsd.org seems to be down
> 
> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> State-Changed-By: gjb
> State-Changed-When: Wed Dec 5 20:32:01 UTC 2012
> State-Changed-Why: 
> Removed torrents.FreeBSD.org in r40278.

That's a shame. 

It was used by how many hundreds or thousands of people. It is popular
enough that multiple people reported the outage despite there not being
an obvious place to do it. People are _still_ using BT to download FreeBSD
this very minute:

ID     Done       Have  ETA           Up    Down  Ratio  Status       Name
  96   100%    1.18 GB  Done         9.0     0.0   3.57  Seeding      FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-powerpc-all
 197   100%    4.11 GB  Done         4.0     0.0   5.07  Seeding      8.1-RELEASE-i386-all
 231   100%    4.23 GB  Done        24.0     0.0   12.0  Seeding      FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-i386-all
 304   100%    2.24 GB  Done        16.0     0.0   45.7  Seeding      FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1

It makes it easier for people with flakey net connections to still do
reliable downloads of FreeBSD. Some of these people are here in the US,
but many are all around the world. Heck, the freebsd.org client went down
I forget how many months ago but one or two people tended to keep 200+ old
release torrents on the air.

It allows people to donate bandwidth to the project while still allowing
FreeBSD to vouch for the authenticity of the downloaded files. And having
a tracker inside freebsd.org means it is easier to defend against charges
of piracy since there were never any files on that tracker that shouldn't
have been there.

Personally, I hate to see it go.
-- 
Kevin P. Neal                                http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/
"Not even the dumbest terrorist would choose an encryption program that
 allowed the U.S. government to hold the key." -- (Fortune magazine
    is smarter than the US government, Oct 29 2001, page 196.)
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